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Kent Sharkey wrote: 24-hour cat videos and Netflix has an effect?
Not as much of an effect as the 16,837,684 "partners" and data-processing companies that your personal data gets sent to, every time you open a web page. It's bigger than e-mail, bigger than youtube, and, yes, it's even bigger than funny cat videos.
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Reflecting a wider workplace trend, more software engineers are replacing their traditional desks with standing desks, walking desks or adjustable desks in hopes of becoming healthier—or at least more comfortable throughout the day. It turns out they are also becoming more productive. "Stand and deliver!"
Personally, I'm much twitchier when I'm working at my standing desk, compared with when I'm seated.
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Well, it's perfectly clear that you can't code a cloud-based AI without a standing desk, preferably with a built-in cup-holder for decaf mocha frappuccino and a mounting-plate for alexa.
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Can we skip the rest of it and go strait to the jar of Whiskey?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Several years ago a marketing guy in the next cubicle declared that standing desks were the next best thing. He lasted a week. He said what I found; after a few hours of standing in one place, the back and leg pain gets intense.
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It takes a week or two to switch over (or possibly just to get used to the new pain). Still, I only use the standing desk about 1/2 time. I can't manage it mentally full time.
TTFN - Kent
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Joe Woodbury wrote: a marketing guy in the next cubicle declared that standing desks were the next best thing
I guess he meant that they're next-best to sitting desks.
The ability to stand was given to us by The Lord for attending the immediate locales of coffee machines.
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The SqlClient team is moving forward with continuous updates and improvements to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server. Am I the only one that's really confused by this namespace?
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Quote: a breaking change to clients
That's as in: if you set up a temporary test environment, it will break your clients.
Sheer genius.
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They've been doing this for a while, and are now the experts at it. 
TTFN - Kent
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It's because of where their glorious leader's push for the cloud has led them: cloud cuckoo land.
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What will be the fate of an open-source project relied upon by so many? Error 451: Unavailable For Legal Reasons
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As long as my desktop wallpaper keeps working, I don't care.
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Hacked corporate sites and news blogs running using the WordPress CMS are being used by attackers to deliver backdoor malware that allows them to drop several second-stage payloads such as keyloggers, info stealers, and Trojans. It's not bad enough that we can't trust updates from {that company} or {the other company}?
Fill in the above tokens as desired
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Malware disguised as google?
A wolf in wolf's clothing?
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Eight major mobile carriers have agreed to share customer location data with the European Commission in a bid to track the spread of COVID-19, the GSMA said in a statement on Wednesday. Little Virus brings Big Brother
It seemed to help in Taiwan and Singapore, so maybe this will help. But I expect they may not want to stop when things calm down.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Little Virus brings Big Brother
Nope... only the opportunity to make it publicly and officially without having to hide (and not only in the EU)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I thought that mobile carriers already do share your location whenever some big shots need it. At least this is not a news to me. So it's better to leave your cell phone at home when you're up to something
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The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” It's not dead, it's just pining for the compiler (or interpreter)
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Once upon a time, people Skyped. Now they are Zooming. What happened? Because: Skype
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Wait, didn't another company buy Skype, a few years back, and "modernise" it?
It used to be pretty good, so now it must be perfect!
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I used zoom yesterday to help a co-worker with her code. It's fairly decent. And free.
Is Skype free?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I... think so? It’s been a while. I know I pay to use it to phone landlines, but I think it’s free for voice & video chat.
TTFN - Kent
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While there’s plenty of information out there on artificial intelligence, it’s not always easy to distinguish fact from fiction or find explanations that are easy to understand. A is for Armageddon, brought by SkyNet. B is for Battery, soon to be your job. C is for Computer, your new overlord
And y'all can do the rest.
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